"Google and others have been pumping in money to make Wine more usable. Finally Wine has come to such a stage that no hacking is required to install Microsoft Office 2007." ... Unfortunately Office2007 in Linux via Wine is still a hack. It would make more sense if all that effort went into OpenOffice.org so that no "hacking" needs to be done to work with Office2007 documents.

Just a point of clarification: Google didn't pump any money at all into Wine with respect to making Office 2007 work. CodeWeavers did the vast majority of that work ourselves, and then returned our patches to the Wine Project, as we always do. Google's funding for Wine-related projects (much of which went to us as well) has mostly been aimed at the Adobe applications, and some others like DragonNaturally Speaking. That's not me being bitter--just wanted credit to go where credit is due. I'm glad Office is working for you.

Outlook *does* work. I use Outlook 2007 day in and day out under CrossOver, running against our Exchange server here at CodeWeavers. Outlook 2003 is even more stable. We eat our own dog food, bottom line.

Stop promoting running proprietary garbage software on Linux! There is certainly nothing "vital" about Microsoft Office, as it is easily, and trivially, replaceable by a multitude of proper Free and open source applications. Considering your last article was all about shortening the grub wait for a Windows dual-boot system, why don't you just keep your proprietary crap on your windows partition, and keep Linux for only good, Free software... You're encouraging irresponsible behaviour among other (especially new) Linux users who simply cannot stop suckling at Microsoft's teat.

wow!right now i would shift from window into ubuntu.back then there a few program for windows that can run in linux.also few of application for linux too.i'm so impress that office 2007 can run in ubuntu with wine application.i will try it and i will try to make a review of it ...